Racial profiling is highly disliked by many people, especially in the United States. Fauchon (2004) defines racial profiling as stopping and searching people passing through public areas solely because of their color, race, or ethnicity (p. 1). Racial profiling is looked down upon in the United States, however, many people, specifically law enforcement, do so to this day. It’s demeaning to people and it goes against what the country stands for. According to Fauchon (2004), by singling out a group of people by their race, we violate their equal protection. If we violate people’s equal protection, then we aren’t moving forward, we are moving backwards and heading back to how things were when the original Jim Crow was in place. According to Fauchon
